With the help of the Dalai Lama, a goddess of healing hugs and a couple of Bollywood stars - among many, many others - Sarah discovers a hell of a lot more. It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India in search of the meaning of life and death. After being cursed by a naked sadhu smeared in human ashes Sarah almost dies from double pneumonia, but not before facing some serious questions about her fragile mortality and inner spiritual void - not to mention some unsightly hair loss. It seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love and it almost kills her - literally. When the love of her life is posted to India, Sarah follows him to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi.

When a beggar reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!'īut twelve years later the prophecy comes true. From the 'brain enema' of a meditation retreat in Dharamsala to the biggest Hindu festival on earth on the steps of the Ganges in Varanasi, and with the help of the Dalai Lama, a goddess of healing hugs and a couple of Bollywood stars - among many, many others - Sarah discovers a hell of a lot more.A rollercoaster ride through a land of chaos and contradiction with a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life - and her sanity.Īfter backpacking her way around India Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. Sarah MacDonald is a journalist and radio broadcaster who lives in Sydney with her husband, ABC journalist Jonathan Harley, and their daughter Georgina. Daisy Jones - TV tie-in The Herbal Astrology Oracle Wild and Wicked Things Elizabeth Finch A Day of Fallen Night Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries.

It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India's many religions in search of the meaning of life and death. After being cursed by a sadhu smeared in human ashes, she nearly dies from double pheumonia. Having given up a blossoming radio career in Sydney to follow her new boyfriend to India, it seems like the ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills Sarah - literally. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most polluted city on earth. Holy Cow!: An Indian Adventure Sarah MacDonald € 14.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.Īfter backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.

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